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I spent this weekend upgrading the underlying Plone instance used to host my blog.  (This was largely because I wanted to get my personal site onto Plone 3 so I could use the NuPlone theme.)

In the process, I took the opportunity to migrate the blog to Quills 1.7.0b2.  Doing so required me first to release 1.7.0b2.  The only change included from beta 1 is that the migration now ensures that weblog entry workflow states are correctly handled.  My hope is that this will address issue 129 in the Quills tracker.

Eating my own dog food has revealed a couple of bugs.  First, portlets don't appear to work in the archive and topics areas of blogs.  From what I recall, this works in QuillsEnabled, so the fix shouldn't be difficult.  Second, when I tried to use ScribeFire (for remote blogging), adding a new post as a draft meant it was lost to ScribeFire (although there on the server).  Not sure whether this is a Quills or ScribeFire bug, though.

Looks like there'll need to be a 1.7.0b3 release...

Applying through the Plone Foundation, I have been awarded funding by Google through their Summer of Code programme to improve the Quills weblog solution for Plone.  This is just a brief post to say that I'll be posting updates on my progress to this blog.

In the interests of eating my own dogfood this is, of course, a Quills blog.  More specifically, it is a fresh instance based on Quills 1.5RC3.  In the interests of continuing to eat my own dogfood, I hope that it won't remain as such while I develop...